Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kinsey Reports, Cognitive Dissonance

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Help you get the truth: communicate the truth, publish a report in journal, present a verbal description of results at a convention, discuss several related experiments in book chapter. Psychologists are interested in explaining the causes of behaviour. To analyze and examine casual relationships they use the scienti c method. If not experiment is confounded and experimenter makes a mistake in a casual explanation. Collecting info about behaviour without trying to change it. Collecting info about behaviour through surveys and questionnaires. Determining the degree of relationship between two or more variables. Eg. investigating the relation between hours of tv viewing and grades. Manipulating one of more variables to determine the e ect on some behaviour (scienti c method) Eg. studying the e ect of vitamin b12 deprivation on maze learning. Does tv violence cause aggression: observation, problem = it is correlational.